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Locomotive only $29.75; DC71A motor $7.50; Matching tender $9.95; Kemtron. 14 wheel $19.95. ALSO STILL HERE, the COMPLETE Kemtron line. A postcard brings literature on these famous products and news about PFM's new, exclusive catalog, listing complete HOn3 line and items seldom or never stocked elsewhere. Please mention your gauge. PACIFIC FAST MAIL P. 0. Box 57, Dept. M10 Edmonds, Wash. One piece die cast body with built-in steps and stake pockets. Complete with all hardware, nylon Low Side Gondola SUBURBAN loco kit (DC operation only) $30.00 DOCKSIDE loco kit (DC operation only) 25.00 Both locos feature brass worms, Micarta gears, . 50-ton Flat Car ferred gray with cement-colored ' A Neiv MR Feature .... bases. Our objection to black was 1 that the dwarfs are not as readily seen i Line,•ide Indiiwiriew 1 iihd can be accidentally knocked or i damaged by yourself or visitors. Beginnirig liert inontli MoDEL R 411- i I nOADLTI #vill pluseilt Ilie liiht Of 11 sel'IPS f Originally Phil and I planned to run i of fraturettes :il,litit trall:Sille ill,|lir- 1 all pigtails through a short length of ' liles. ,Sliecial erlll,ItablS wl|l lie l'|ALL042,1| a press fit. However, it was decided I brass tubing inserted in table top with | on =mall. litctillesque 111,111:,Irips flint r take i ip little ;p,ii·e, art, ensy to lilli 1,1 ' to use a Mo" O.D. tube for each bulb. : tuiette will hove 1,|intnh· 01 tile l,lotoHoles side by side were drilled di- i t,·pe. ilimenili,n_,1 ,|inipil,As ali,1 .,11\· i rectly behind dwarf and tubes were I utlier LIsetill d.itn ,ve c.iii nlitam. AIR'. • inserted almost level with wood bases. I Paul Lalson 1,1111 1,0 .it tile c.linul.1 ,lill i ' Fig. 9. Bulb replacement is now a , cinch. Just remove 254wo :in,1 iii,11£e ,-Ittrnctir'o moill·|,s, Eacli ti'.1t,1111 \viitel, His 111·.ht till|uslly, iIi tile , wires from • N,ivemhel ibsue, will I,e n biliaccu , terrninal strip below, pull them L will042linULe. through tube, and remove bulb from dwarf. It isn't necessary to cement railroad but if you check around you bulbs in the dwarfs. They are held will find their functions differ wide- firmly in place when pigtails are bent ly. You might say they're always sharply behind the signals. used for the unusual"-at turnouts Coloring bulbs, too, is an easy job. where traffic is required to go ex- The finest lamp colors on the market tremely slowly, to govern back-up are made by General Cement, and are movements of engines, and even on available at all radio stores. The col- third-rail lines to indicate a live third ors come in a box containing green, rail. Naturally, we had to have blue amber, red and blue; also a bottle of dwarfs. But where? Phil finally had thinner. The bulbs must be dipped a happy thought. while hot. Hook one up to a trans- "Say, let's use 'em to indicate track former and dip while it's lighted. Pull gaps in the yards!" he suggests. Which lamp out quickly and let it dry for we did. The beauty of it all is that about a minute. Then dip again. You'll they can be seen from our future confind that two dips for each color gives trying. By the way, use 12 v. pea pearance, we used something else. bulbs and operate them on 5 or 6 v. Note in the photo how different our -you'll get longer life and they'll one-light dwarf appears. That's be- give you just the right low brilliancy. cause we used the operating head of What about one-light dwarfs? We a Kurtz-Kraft semaphore signal. They saved this to the last because of the make swell little dwarfs- and I'm special capacity in which they're used. sure Mr. Kurtz will sell you all you You'll see blue dwarfs on most every want! Potent No 2053309 F1 1 I 'i , \/- 1 f i l-.- , t 0.\ %4- SZ.... 00 R254:- 47:.. •1:ir . 4% 48 Sal sfact or 5/32 and 3/16 stock included for only guaranteed $1 00 extra or full Send check tai laboratories etc w th order SPECIAL - Threading d es refund CODs each No for 1/8 EXTRA punches ava table in square rec langular and hexagon shapes Only 40c SAVEI BUY AT WHOLESALEI Send 50c in co n 0, stamps for 64 page Catalog of Name Brand tems you can buy at whole sale 85 ALBERT J. TATU, INC COLUMBIA DRIVE DEPT• WILLIAMSVILLE N Y This is a view of the yard with the dwarf signal installation about 60 per cent completed. The turnout at upper right, which leads to the shops, will prototypically be thrown by a manual switch. Model Railroader -/ 1* . -1 - . + 1 . •I:•t -'.,1Cal , , 4 '111 ff /I'l'.t ---'1: - :- I Ellit 113, -- -. 41 1. - -Jit -:Ir - - 4 .-9 I C., 1 *. , '.4,1:L. ., .Ll : lili the proper hue. In one night you can Although Fig. 8 shows a single-light dip three dozen bulbs without even dwarf that matches the others in ap- trol tower location, thus giving us accurate location marks for each gap. tf .2 4 |- f. " I 5- f 9 \\ .... : I ' - ,- -. * : + 4, 2 .,9 , \ 7 4 '4 -T* I - 4/ . \ .. \'.... \\, <'.--4 1 4. \